‘I consider him my dad’ – Ex-Liverpool star Naby Keita reveals his emotional reaction to Jurgen Klopp’s exit bombshell | OQAS44A | 2024-01-30 16:08:01
'I consider him my dad' – Ex-Liverpool star Naby Keita reveals his emotional reaction to Jurgen Klopp's exit bombshell | OQAS44A | 2024-01-30 16:08:01
Naby Keita has passed on his greatest needs to Jurgen Klopp after the German announced he would be departing Liverpool in the summer, revealing he views his former manager like a father.
The information came as an almighty shock to Liverpool fans and rival supporters alike, with the 56-year-old deciding to step down after 9 trophy-laden years at Anfield.
Klopp will hope to bow out on a high at the finish of the campaign and the Reds discover themselves in a robust position on the halfway stage, sitting 5 factors away from champions Manchester City at the prime of the Premier League desk.
The Merseyside giants are also preventing for honours in the Carabao Cup and the FA Cup, with Klopp's males storming to a comprehensive 5-2 defeat of Norwich to succeed in the fifth spherical at the weekend.
Klopp brought Keita to Liverpool from RB Leipzig back in 2018 and the 28-year-old midfielder went on to make 129 appearances for the club across 5 seasons, profitable seven pieces of silverware.
And while the Guinea international left Liverpool to hitch Werder Bremen as a free agent last June, he had nothing but good phrases to say about his previous boss as he mirrored on the information with RMC Sport.
'I'm not on the social media networks however once they informed me, I had tears in my eyes,' Keita advised the French publication ahead of Guinea's AFCON quarter-final conflict with DR Congo.
'He took me to Liverpool as his son and I contemplate him my dad.
'I wish him the perfect for the remainder of his life. I'll try to write to him afterwards.
'Such is life, I ran into him and I wasn't disenchanted. We received trophies.'
Virgil van Dijk, in the meantime, has stated that Liverpool's squad have Klopp's impending departure 'exhausting to take' after telling them in personal.
'It's a tough one to take, because the supervisor means so much for us, to me, to the membership, to the whole Premier League I feel,' the Liverpool and Netherlands defender stated.
'However he made the choice for him and his household. It was all the time going to be a troublesome one and it was undoubtedly the case.
'He informed us in personal in fact, and all of us have been collectively. Like I stated, it's a tough one to take however our mindset is to give attention to enterprise.
We've got a whole lot of targets still to realize this yr and why not end the season on a high and together with celebrations for the boss as properly?'
Van Dijk added: 'I feel how we all the time attempt to manage noise from the surface. In fact that is large, it's large news in football. For us, it was additionally a very massive day. However we've got huge targets this yr and that's undoubtedly burdened by the manager as nicely.
'For us and for me personally as properly, I need to ensure the remainder of the boys assume like that too. I feel that's the case as properly. All of us need to achieve a lot and that mindset was already there since pre-season and that doesn't change.
'It'll perhaps even offer you an extra increase to try this additional or perhaps take pleasure in it slightly bit much more collectively and make the final part of the season, the final little bit of the supervisor's time on the membership, one of the best time he's ever had. That's what we attempt for and that's why it's business as standard.'
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